Cheers for Fears

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Cheers for Fears
Description
Publisher	DC Comics
Date published	August 2007
Part of	Scooby-Doo #123
# of pages	6
Writer	Scott Cunningham
Penciler	Robert W. Pope
Inker	Scott McRae
Colorer	Heroic Age
Letterer	Mike Sellers
Editor	Jeanine Schaefer
Chronology
Previous story	Friday Night Frights
Next story	Learn to Draw the M.I. Gang

Cheers for Fears is the third story in Scooby-Doo #123 by DC Comics.

Premise

At a state-playoff game for the Coolsville High Devils football team, the little devil mascot Flamey has gone wild -- and he can fly and shoot fire.

Synopsis

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Characters

Main characters:

• Mystery Inc.
  • Scooby-Doo
  • Shaggy Rogers
  • Fred Jones
  • Daphne Blake
  • Velma Dinkley

Supporting characters:

• Coach Peters ^{(only appearance)}

Villains:

• Flamey ^{(only appearance)(no lines)(projection)}
• Melvin Gerkin ^{(only appearance)}

Other characters:

• Coolsville High Devils ^{(only appearance)(no lines)}
• Rivington Rockets ^{(only appearance)(no lines)}
• Audience ^{(only appearance)(no lines)}
• Cheerleaders ^{(only appearance)(miscellaneous speaking)}
• Water boy ^{(only appearance)(no lines)}
• Police officer ^{(only appearance)(no lines)}

Locations

• Coolsville
  • Coolsville High School
    • Football field

Objects

• TBA

Vehicles

• None

Suspects

Suspect	Motive/reason
Coach Peters	As coach of the rival team, the Rivington Rockets, he had a motive to demoralize the opposition.
Melvin Gerkin	He revealed too much knowledge of what Flamey did while he was supposedly stuffed in a locker.

Culprits

Culprit	Motive/reason
Melvin Gerkin operating a holographic Flamey and a laser	To ruin the big game, so a successful team wouldn't draw funding away from the science department.

Notes/trivia

• This story reveals that Shaggy and Daphne spent a portion of their high-school years at Coolsville High School. Since according to the The New Scooby and Scrappy Doo Show episode The Crazy Carnival Caper, they spent another portion at Central High.
• Daphne was a cheerleader back in high school.

Coloring mistakes

• None known.

Inconsistencies/continuity errors and/or goofs/oddities

• 

  Shaggy calls Coolsville High, "[the gang's] alma mater".

  In this story, the whole gang are said to have attended Coolsville High School and graduated from this school (though Velma is shown to have attended another school in "The Spirit Spooked Sports Show" and in "Friday Night Frights", and Daphne and Shaggy were shown to do so as well in "The Crazy Carnival Caper" along the way). Shaggy calls Coolsville High, "[their] alma mater," with the plural implying the whole gang.
• Shaggy was surprised and frightened in the previous story in the same issue, "Friday Night Frights", to learn that Velma's alma mater's football team was called "The Devils" but in this very story he's portrayed of a devoted fan of the Coolsville High's "Devils", without even the slightest of concern by their name.

Reception

Scott Cunningham's "Cheers for Fears" takes a less personal approach to the field of victory. The motive of our false face is original, yet keeping within the theme of Mystery Inc's usual targets. Cunningham deserves a definite "Rah!" for researching the method of the criminal's sabotage. While Cunningham's story is more plot-driven, he's still attentive to the Gang's characterization. There's a funny scene shared early between Shaggy and Scoob. The Gang in disguise is quite hilarious, and putting Scooby among their disguise is absolutely inspired zaniness.

The menace drawn by Robert Pope is an amusing combination of Him and the design of the Powerpuff Girl. The entity works as a mascot as well as a flame-inducing threat to pom-poms. The jokes in this one creation are many. The phrase Powerpuff Girls is a play on the phrase Powder Puff Girls--which is synonymous with cheerleaders. Him is essentially attacking Powder Puff Girls; or rather Him is still attacking the Powerpuff Girls.